Port Ramsay

Despite the slightly daunting entrance, once you are in there is loads of space to anchor. It is a charming place with many wild flowers and a very extensive foreshore full of whelks, rock pools and various other forms of life, fringed with sea pinks. Good for blackberries too. And seals on the rocks at the entrance. The only problem is that it is quite a long row to the shore, so aim for the island in front of the cottages and watch you don't get cut off by the tide on your way back. The main thing to see is the early 19th century limekilns just NE of the workers' cottages, surprisingly not mostly holiday homes. Just behind the kilns is the quarry where you can still see where the holes for the charges were drilled into the cliff face. In front is the slipway where the boats arrived with the coal and left for Glasgow with the lime.